At One Place East, we’ve developed a training program for health and social care professionals, co-designed and co-delivered by our Experts By Experience – individuals with lived experiences of various disabilities. The program, titled “DisAbility: An Expert By Experience Focus,” emphasizes the abilities of all people with disabilities, both visible and invisible.
Our sessions, called Learning Bites, are designed to fit the busy schedules of health and social care professionals. By dedicating just 2 hours each month to an online workshop via MS Teams, held on the second Tuesday from 12:00 to 2:00 pm, we aim to address health inequalities faced by local people with disabilities.
Each session will include some information and learning about the topic, with the voice of Experts by Experience at the heart sharing their stories, experiences and viewpoints. After attending each session, you will receive a Certificate of Attendance as evidence of your own Continuing Professional Development. Best of all, these sessions are FREE, thanks to generous funding from NHS Inequalities Fund.
Click on the session dates below to see more details about each session.
Aim: This session provides an overview of disability.
Learning Outcomes: At the end of the session, you will be able to:
- Define disability and identify different types of disability (visible and hidden), including a quiz (to include the history of disability in the UK and local demographics for Redbridge)
- Compare the medical model vs social/disability model of care
- Describe One Place East, what it offers and personal testimony from EBE’s about the difference OPE makes to their lives.
Tuesday, 12 November 2024
12:00pm – 2:00pm
Online via Teams Aim: This session provides an overview of the importance of focusing on the social model (rather than the medical model) of disability.
Learning Outcomes: At the end of the session, you will be able to:
- Compare the medical model vs the social/disability model of care and explain why this is important
- Explain the language and terminology about disability and how these change
- Identify the stereotypes, stigma and discrimination that impacts on disabled people
- Be aware of personal, lived experience about the above
Tuesday, 10 December 2024 12:00pm – 2:00pm Online via Teams Aim: We all hear about the challenges health and social care professionals experience on a daily basis. This session will focus on the personal impact of these on people with lived experience and explore ways of creating positive change.
Learning Outcomes: At the end of the session, you will be able to:
- Recognise and acknowledge the challenges faced by professionals and their current systems and working environment
- Be aware of the barriers people with lived experience find along the care pathway
- Identify strategies where service-users and professionals can have a more productive partnership to ensure everyone is seen, heard and understood.
Tuesday, 14 January 2025 12:00pm – 2:00pm Online via Teams Aim: To explore personal experiences of mental health issues. This course other OPE mental health courses but has a greater focus on people’s lived experience and stories.
Learning Outcomes:
- List the main mental health conditions
- Recognise how mental illness can be an “invisible disability” that can coexist alongside other disabilities and health conditions
- Be aware of how mental health can impact on the person and strategies to improve mental well-being for all of us.
Tuesday, 11 February 2025 12:00pm – 2:00pm Online via Teams Aim: We will explore ways in which people with lived experience and health and social care professionals can collaborate more to ensure better outcomes and tackle health inequalities
Learning Outcomes: At the end of the session, you will be able to:
- Contrast consultation, co-production and co-design and their pros and cons
- Recognise the ways in which health and social care professionals could benefit from the input from people with lived experience
- Identify the perceived barriers that get in the way and how these could be overcome
Tuesday, 11 March 2025 12:00pm – 2:00pm Online via Teams If you would like to attend either or both of these training sessions, please complete the form below to register your interest.